Coming to America: Carnap, Reichenbach and the Great Intellectual Migration. Part II: Hans Reichenbach
Coming to America: Carnap, Reichenbach and the Great Intellectual Migration. Part II: Hans Reichenbach
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来到美国：卡尔纳普、莱辛巴赫和知识分子大移民。
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10.15173/jhap.v8i11.4562
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2020
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Sander Verhaegh
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Sander Verhaegh
1930 年代末，第二次世界大战开始前几年，少数欧洲科学哲学家移民到美国，以逃避欧洲大陆日益危险的局势。第一批移居国外的人包括鲁道夫·卡尔纳普（Rudolf Carnap）和汉斯·赖兴巴赫（Hans Reichenbach），他们可以说是当时最有影响力的逻辑经验主义者。在这篇由两部分组成的论文中，我重建了卡尔纳普和赖兴巴赫在搬迁之前的几十年里与美国学者令人惊讶的大量互动，以解释他们在 1930 年代末到来的影响。第二部分追溯赖辛巴赫的发展，重点关注他在 20 世纪 30 年代与美国学者的频繁互动。我表明，赖兴巴赫在其职业生涯的第一阶段对英语哲学的发展相当无知，但从 1920 年代后期开始，他变得越来越关注美国。我重建了赖兴巴赫跨越大西洋寻找工作的努力，并表明他的一些英文出版物——最著名的是《经验》和《预测》——试图改变美国关于逻辑经验主义的叙述。美国哲学家将科学哲学与维也纳学派的观点等同起来，而赖兴巴赫则旨在将他的概率科学哲学作为一种更微妙的选择来推销。
In the late 1930s, a few years before the start of the Second World War, a small number of European philosophers of science emigrated to the United States, escaping the increasingly perilous situation on the continent. Among the first expatriates were Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach, arguably the most influential logical empiricists of their time. In this two-part paper, I reconstruct Carnap’s and Reichenbach’s surprisingly numerous interactions with American academics in the decades before their move in order to explain the impact of their arrival in the late 1930s. This second part traces Reichenbach’s development and focuses on his frequent interactions with American academics throughout the 1930s. I show that Reichenbach was quite ignorant about developments in Anglophone philosophy in the first stages of his career but became increasingly focused on the United States from the late 1920s onwards. I reconstruct Reichenbach’s efforts to find a job across the Atlantic and show that some of his English publications—most notably Experience and Prediction—were attempts to change the American narrative about logical empiricism. Whereas U. S. philosophers identified scientific philosophy with the views of the Vienna Circle, Reichenbach aimed to market his probabilistic philosophy of science as a subtler alternative.